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Another Boom For Amazonia
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Author : Jr. Penn
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2010-05
Another Boom For Amazonia written by Jr. Penn and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This study examines the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the new camu camu industry in Peru. Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) is a small tree native to wetlands of the Amazon basin. It is especially abundant in Peruvian Amazonia. The high vitamin-C content of the fruit has generated interest in exporting camu camu products from Amazonia to more-developed countries. The government of Peru has been actively promoting this new extractive industry, as well as the planting of camu camu in rural areas. Non-governmental development organizations and private industry are now actively involved with camu camu projects and enterprises. In Peru, enthusiasm for this native species is high, because camu camu is expected to provide a much-needed and sustainable economic boost for the region. However, many questions about the environmental implications and socioeconomic impacts of the camu camu export industry need to be answered in order to understand its ecological and economic viability, and its effects on business and in rural communities. Winner of 2010 "Dissertation Excellence Award" Findings indicate that camu camu has provided significantly more income to rural residents than is provided by the traditional boom and bust economies of Amazonia. Households who adopted camu camu as a new crop in their floodplain agroforestry systems farmed significantly more floodplain land than non-adopters, and were especially adept at experimenting with new innovations. Lack of agricultural credit is a major constraint to adopting camu camu as a new crop in Peru. Geographic isolation and the location of processing facilities in relation to fruit harvests present major obstacles to the economic viability of the new industry. Camu camu was found to be cultivated with a higher diversity of annual crops than is typical in floodplain fields of the region. Extraction of camu camu fruits from the wild does not appear to have a negative environmental impact, at least in the initial years of the industry. This non-timber forest product in the process of domestication can support a viable industry in the Peruvian Amazon, if agricultural extension methods and marketing channels are improved.
Another Boom For Amazonia
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Author : James W. Penn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Another Boom For Amazonia
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Author : Jr. Penn
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2010-05
Another Boom For Amazonia written by Jr. Penn and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This study examines the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the new camu camu industry in Peru. Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) is a small tree native to wetlands of the Amazon basin. It is especially abundant in Peruvian Amazonia. The high vitamin-C content of the fruit has generated interest in exporting camu camu products from Amazonia to more-developed countries. The government of Peru has been actively promoting this new extractive industry, as well as the planting of camu camu in rural areas. Non-governmental development organizations and private industry are now actively involved with camu camu projects and enterprises. In Peru, enthusiasm for this native species is high, because camu camu is expected to provide a much-needed and sustainable economic boost for the region. However, many questions about the environmental implications and socioeconomic impacts of the camu camu export industry need to be answered in order to understand its ecological and economic viability, and its effects on business and in rural communities. Winner of 2010 "Dissertation Excellence Award" Findings indicate that camu camu has provided significantly more income to rural residents than is provided by the traditional boom and bust economies of Amazonia. Households who adopted camu camu as a new crop in their floodplain agroforestry systems farmed significantly more floodplain land than non-adopters, and were especially adept at experimenting with new innovations. Lack of agricultural credit is a major constraint to adopting camu camu as a new crop in Peru. Geographic isolation and the location of processing facilities in relation to fruit harvests present major obstacles to the economic viability of the new industry. Camu camu was found to be cultivated with a higher diversity of annual crops than is typical in floodplain fields of the region. Extraction of camu camu fruits from the wild does not appear to have a negative environmental impact, at least in the initial years of the industry. This non-timber forest product in the process of domestication can support a viable industry in the Peruvian Amazon, if agricultural extension methods and marketing channels are improved.
Another Boom For Amazonia
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Author : James W. Penn (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Another Boom For Amazonia written by James W. Penn (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Camu camu categories.
The Amazon Rubber Boom 1850 1920
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1983-06
The Amazon Rubber Boom 1850 1920 written by and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-06 with categories.
The first complete account of the rise and fall of the rubber economy in Brazil provides a dramatic example of one of the boom and bust cycles traditionally associated with Brazilian economic history. The Amazon rubber trade was one of the most important export booms in the history of Latin America, dominating the economic life of the Amazon for 70 years until the successful cultivation of rubber trees by the British in Southeast Asia. Yet this long period of vigorous economic activity left the basic structure of Amazonian society relatively unchanged. One of the author's main concerns is to explore why rubber exports did not generate substantial growth in either the industrial or the agricultural sector, and she finds the answers primarily in the relations of production and exchange that characterized the Amazon's extractive economy. The study also considers the impact of political decentralization and regionalism on the Amazonian economy, draws comparisons with the coffee boom in Sao Paulo that induced sustained industrial growth in that area, and traces the consequences of the rubber economy's collapse on the social, political, and economic life in the Amazon.
Prosperity S Promise
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Author : Bradford L Barham
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-09-12
Prosperity S Promise written by Bradford L Barham and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-12 with Business & Economics categories.
This study provides the first integrative economic analysis of one of Latin America's most explosive natural resource export booms. The authors combine economic and geographical perspectives to build persuasive theoretical and empirical arguments linking micro- and macroeconomic processes and to explain the key features and outcomes of the boom. They conclude by laying out the essential lessons learned for assessing the role of resource extraction in developing regional economies.
Mapping The Amazon
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Author : Amanda M. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-01
Mapping The Amazon written by Amanda M. Smith and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Smith’s investigation focuses rigorously on the aesthetic complexities of these texts to demonstrate how, in a way even the authors themselves sometimes do not suspect, new ways arise of understanding their power of eco-criticism. [...] Smith’s contribution is this call, like few today, to awaken new energies in the literary and cultural criticism about the Amazon precisely because she has her feet grounded in the harsh history of the region, while her eyes are focused on different future possibilities for the region.' Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, ReVista
Some Other Amazonians
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Author : Mark Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of London Press
Release Date : 2004
Some Other Amazonians written by Mark Harris and has been published by University of London Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
This study brings to light the diversity of Amazonian societies. It looks at land use and kinship dynamics, peasantry, ethnic communities and industry and extends anthropological work beyond its traditional limit of Amerindian societies.
In Search Of The Amazon
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Author : Seth Garfield
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-06
In Search Of The Amazon written by Seth Garfield and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-06 with Science categories.
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.
Change In The Amazon Basin
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Author : John Hemming
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1985
Change In The Amazon Basin written by John Hemming and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Conference report on development projects, environmental dangers, agricultural production and agroforestry by indigenous peoples and historical change in the Amazonia river basin, Brazil - considers the impact of development projects on the living conditions of Andean Indian tribes, negative effects of deforestation, hydrologycal aspects of rainforest in the central Amazon tropical zone, etc.; includes a historical survey of the rubber boom. Bibliography, diagrams, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.